Anyone tried Dell Mini

[Billie Walsh]

Art Alexion wrote:
> Jim wrote:
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>> I kind of smell $Microsoft close by.
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> So do I though Dell denies it.
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It's not just Microsoft. It's Norton and several others as well. Got to 
a local computer seller and look at the hard drive of any machine on 
display. There's all sorts of "stuff" on trial basis. I suppose there 
are enough stupid people out ther e that just send in the money before 
the trial period runs out to make it profitable.

When I used to work at Wal Mart there were hundreds of AOL Free Trial 
CD's everywhere in the store. Wal Mart made $10.00 for every disc that 
got used.

OK, lets say a computer manufacturer puts on a trial version of Norton. 
Mr' Stupid buys the computer and sends Symantec the $$$$$. Symantec then 
pays $$$ to the computer manufacturer for putting it on the computer. 
Add in the $$$ paid by the gaming site for preloading a trial on the 
computer, A trial version of some DVD software, Music download sites, ad 
infinitum and the bucks add up.

So now Mr. Smart wants to buy a computer with Linux on it. 99.9% of 
Linux software is free so the computer manufacturer loses out on that 
extra $$$ from all the trial software manufacturers. Now the computer 
manufacturer isn't going to lose if he can help it so he charges Mr. 
Smart a little extra. Probably less than a Windows computer but still 
more than it should cost.

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